Website updated on the weekends. Normally.

5-12-08 - TrumpetBoredom - HELLLOOOOO China
Hey China. You account for 10% of our bandwidth (over 5 gigs worth last month). What's up? Ready for the Olympics? That's nice. Seriously, I wish I could read Chinese so I could use the Search Engines they use to get to TB - I want to see how highly we place on common search strings (we are oddly low on google when you type in trumpet).

I haven't updated in a while, mainly because DB has been so insanely popular you guys keep coming back. I must admit, I love the comic. The artwork is incredible and never ceases to amaze me. Plus, it helps that I'm a co-star and CW is a funny guy.

Byro had his senior recital a few weeks ago. A lot of you guys say we can't play in real life... so, here are some clips to shut you up. My One and Only Love (flugel) and Split Kick.

TB has a CRAZY summer coming up, with a wedding and a major roadtrip planned, soI am not sure when we will be recording. However, we will record SOMETIME this summer. (Or, at least, we better)
-Matt
Matt@trumpetboredom.com


3-23-08 - TrumpetBoredom - Atomic Del Taco Farts
I hope you are all enjoying your Easter Gigs.

As promised, I continue to update TB on all major holidays.

First and foremost, check out DuckieBoredom. We're four comics in and still incredibly awesome!

Next, I uploaded a new tune. Rubber Duckie 5: Latin Style.

3-2-08 - TrumpetBoredom - MUFFIN!
The LONG anticipated (at least for CW and myself) new TB section is FINALLY READY!!!

Actually, I take that back... it's ready, but it still needs a lot of work. But, I can't sit on this new TB awesomeness anymore...

Introducing the next greatest thing EVER... Duckie Boredom!!!


You can find this new awesomeness at this link. I recommend you check it every Sunday.

And, since today is a day of celebration, how about a new tune as well? This is actually a tune from a past recording session that I kind of forgot about. Oops. So, continuing with our theme of TV show themes, here is "Sanford and Son."

Oh, and here is Wayne killing, "The Mission: Impossible Theme" at the Oscars this year.

2-22-08 - TrumpetBoredom - Coming March 2nd, 2008!!!!!
I'm REALLY excited to announce the next big TB thing. Or, well, tease it anyway:

Intrigued? Good. More news to come on March 2nd, 2008! BE HERE!!!

Until then, why not a new tune? Here is the mp3 to the Munsters theme. To be honest, it's a Frankenstein-esque monster mash-up of 3 different takes. Wow, 2 bad puns in one sentence. I should get an award. Anyway, you'll notice several subtle differences between the mp3 and the video.

YouTubes:
The greatest moment in trumpet history... Wait for Wayne at the end
Harry James rips it up

2-15-08 - TrumpetBoredom - Gooey Expletives
All I can say, is that sometimes, Joe is very, very eloquent. This is not one of those times. Warning, he swears... so cut out at the end if you're under 12.


Download the full version (3.5Mb WMV) here.

TB's big super secret surprise awesomeness thing is coming soon. I think we're shooting for the first week of March.

2-9-08 - TrumpetBoredom - Shoutout
Collin and myself want to give a shout out to Wayne Bergeron, who played an incredible concert with the SBC Big Band tonight, and also mentioned that he was a fan of our site. That fact alone made my night, regardless of the sick double D Wayne pasted. (btw, no better place to be than 3 rows back directly in front of his bell)

Stories from the night: Wayne offered Maynard $2,000 to play on his CD, but Maynard wouldn't take the check. Wayne forced it in his pocket, but Maynard never cashed it. "High Clouds and a Chance of Wayne" was written over 6 innings of baseball by Tom Kubis.

Thanks for checking us out, Wayne!!! And thanks for adding to our Rubber Duckie collection! We're your biggest fans!



2-7-08 - "Dude...Why.... WHY?!?!?!?"
Nearly every recording session, we finish all of our new tunes, but still have some chops left. So, we go through and find stuff we want to re-record out of the book. Then we play this long, 30 minute medley of past tunes and leave the mic running... it usually sounds awful, as our chops slowly die and we forget how to read stuff we've already played. Slowly but surely, songs we meant to re-record to sound better suddenly sound worse.

This is one of those times. This is late in the set, and we've been meaning to re-record this for ages. It sounds awful... but there is an odd, repeatable quality about it. I keep listening to it, and I don't know why. Elements of it sound good... I think. And we did make it through in one take...

So, the first mp3 from the first session of 2008: Da Main Street Electrical Parade (awful)

In other news, if you want to hear something good, I found a version of Everybody Loves the Blues by the Future Corps online... check it out!

1-29-08 - TrumpetBoredom - Kings of YouTube
So, that mystery project I told you about a few days ago has officially been started on our end. We still have a bit more to do until we premire it, but I can tell you that it is INCREDIBLE and CW and our friend have put a lot of time and effort into it. And I know you will enjoy it. And if you don't, I know we will enjoy making it, which is the whole point of TB.

I have another YouTube video for you this week. As much as I love to see our bandwidth numbers rise from month to month, you can't beat the convenience of YouTube for sharing videos. All told we have over 16,000 video views on YouTube, which is pretty good in my mind.

I usually try to add a story with every song, but there really isn't one for this. The only part of note is that this is the song we began our latest recording session with, as it is a good warm-up (read: easy) tune. So here is TB's version of The Office Theme:


Or, download the WMV file (1.8Mb)

I'll add mp3s eventually.

Where'd all the past updates go!?!?!?!? Right here.

September 2007:

As we hit the half-decade mark, I went back and realized how much has changed over the years. I went through hundreds of pictures, nearly the same amount of songs, and countless memories in order to produce a video tribute to TB through the years. And, what song would be better to do this with than our first hit, Rubber Duckie.

So, here it is: A 5 Year Rubber Duckie Retrospective, TB style.



Full download (23.5MB WMV)

??? - TrumpetBoredom - Music
Okay, I am so sick of you guys asking us for our music. So I'm giving in. Here it is. The music for the most requested song on TrumpetBoredom: The first trumpet part to The Legends of Zelda pg 1 and pg 2.

Happy now?

Byro on Ellen!
Here's the video! Part 1 (AVI 31 megs) and Part 2 (AVI 22 megs). Both require Divx. Part 1 has the F, part 2 does not.

¡¿¡ - TrumpetBoredom - I'm Back.. For now.
As for TB stuff... let's see what I can drag out of the archives.
People always ask me what happens at a typical recording session. And I feel this video pretty much describes it perfectly. It is a video of us playing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." (4.6Mb, WMV format)
And pretty much everything that happens in this video happens during a TB recording session: I run around frantically setting everything up, Joe plays some out of place high notes to warm up, CW figures out his baseline, we argue over something, figure out where we are going to come in, count off, Byro leans up against the door because he is bored with his part, stop because someone is not prepared, and then record the greatest work ever in one take. That's TB for ya, right there. Not pictured: Joe's dogs, our mass audience of attractive women in the background screaming out our names, us going into a 9 minute rock-out where we destroy our instruments and the crowd goes wild!!! That does usually happen, though.

Sometime in the Past - TrumpetBoredom - Big Update
Finally, so you people can fill your computers with musical goodness, I present you one of the coolest things at Disneyland: The Disneyland Main Street Dixieland Piano Player. Most people aren't away such a thing at Disneyland exists, but it is one of my favorite stomping grounds, especially when the piano player plays awesome songs like this... "Grim Grinning Ghosts" (4Mb WMV). Alan, you rock. Consider this your internet debut.

Too cheap to pay for the Gordon Goodwin CDs? Don't live near LA and have never seen them live? As always, I have the hookups, care of New Trier Jazz Festival and their jazz program. Check it out. (85 minute Real Media Stream). If anyone can grab the full file and not the stream and let me know how to get it, I'd love them for it.

Update - TrumpetBoredom - Spam
I got this in my e-mail today... check it out.
Hello fellow brass player,

Every brass player knows how physically demanding the profession can be. Not only must you play artistically but you must have the strength and endurance to play high notes and play them in tune!
I'm a trumpet player and have come upon a very exciting technology used to increase strength and endurance.
The product is called Lifewave Energy Patches and it contains no drugs. It simply tells your body to burn fat for cellular energy in a way that improves your strength and endurance.
Let me tell you about my story. I'm a bit of a fitness buff as well as an amateur trumpet player. I tried the patches at the gym and have improved my maximum bench press from 230 lbs once to being able to push 270 lbs 5 times. In checking out the patches I made an interesting discovery --- not only do they work for strength conditioning but they also greatly helped my trumpet playing. As an experiment, I put a set of patches on then picked up my trumpet and was able to immediately play very fast chromatic scales. My high register felt much stronger but boy were my fingers working FAST. As an amateur I don't get gigs too often but I certainly can't wait to wear them on a gig.
These patches have been through several double blind clinical studies and the athletes that tested them reported gains of up to 40% in strength and endurance. If this technology can do this for athletes imagine what it can do for brass playing!

I think I might have to try this stuff out.

What is TrumpetBoredom?
This is the first question people ask me when they hear about this site. What exactly do you do with 4 trumpets and a bari sax? Well, this is how the process works:
1. Someone finds a tune to play. 2. I send the tune to Joe. 3. Joe decides if it would work, and how. Then he writes it out. 4. Then nothing happens for 3 months. 5. On the day of the recording session, we print out the parts, listen to it through on Finale, and record the song in one take. And that's all there is to it. Every recording is live, usually on the first take.

So what kind of songs do we play? Well, I made 2 long files to give you an example. Check them out!